After Graduation…
If you are looking for a job in graphic design, here’s some (more or less, depending on your level of professionalism) helpful advice:
Add comment February 25th, 2007
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Thomas Allen
These dioramas of photographer Thomas Allen are ingenious!
I love the pop-up feeling and the use of pulp-novel imagery.
Some of the photos are actually used as book covers, which makes a very nice concept.
You can view more of this series here and here.
via covers.fwis.com
Add comment October 5th, 2006
Design is Magick
This article from Michael Bierut gives a really accurate description of a designer’s work process (and the associated problems):
When I do a design project, I begin by listening carefully to you as you talk about your problem and read whatever background material I can find that relates to the issues you face. If you’re lucky, I have also accidentally acquired some firsthand experience with your situation. Somewhere along the way an idea for the design pops into my head from out of the blue. I can’t really explain that part; it’s like magic. Sometimes it even happens before you have a chance to tell me that much about your problem! Now, if it’s a good idea, I try to figure out some strategic justification for the solution so I can explain it to you without relying on good taste you may or may not have. Along the way, I may add some other ideas, either because you made me agree to do so at the outset, or because I’m not sure of the first idea. At any rate, in the earlier phases hopefully I will have gained your trust so that by this point you’re inclined to take my advice. I don’t have any clue how you’d go about proving that my advice is any good except that other people — at least the ones I’ve told you about — have taken my advice in the past and prospered. In other words, could you just sort of, you know…trust me?
Incredibly funny. Also very true. Reminds me of inventing a concept after the design is actually done…
via designobserver
Add comment October 4th, 2006